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By Sean Conway, 

Tribune Media Services

 

After a slow start, spring is now coming on like a freight train. Every day new plants are pushing up out of the ground in my garden, tree buds are swelling and the race toward a leafy-green landscape has begun.

By Frank S. Washington

 

DETROIT, MI   – Street cred, as in credibility, that’s what the Hyundai Veloster pocket rocket was all about.

By Rick Garcia

 

Years ago while working as a nonprofit executive in Chicago, one of my Board members who was the CEO of a global pharmaceutical corporation said that anyone who can passionately work at a nonprofit in a demanding environment delivering quality service while making a nickel dance before spending – can manage my business anytime.

 

By Robert Pagliarini, 

Tribune Media Services

 

Chances are, you are woefully unprepared for that upcoming interview and you don’t even know it. Talking points rehearsed? Check. Company and interviewer researched? Of course. Answers to tough questions practiced? You bet. Psychological tells analyzed? Uh, come again? Without knowing it, you communicate your deep psychological beliefs, attitudes and weaknesses every time you open your mouth. I’ve interviewed people who looked stellar on paper, but who exposed their hidden tendencies, issues and mental roadblocks as soon as they spoke.

By Jill Schlesinger

Tribune Media Services

 

  ”What does your fund manager do?” screamed the headline of the April 8 edition of Barron’s. All I could think was, “What, indeed!” The article says some superstar fund managers “fly around the world, they crunch reams of data, they dissect industries” – and, for good measure, ultimately beat the index against which their funds are measured.